Trickle Up Poverty by Michael Savage

Author:Michael Savage [Savage, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-201404-7
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-12-21T16:00:00+00:00

Not only are these actors ignoramuses, they’re outright hypocrites.

Two examples will suffice. Compare the global warming rhetoric of Barbara “Babs” Streisand with how this singing yenta lives. On her website Babs talks about making a difference to stop global warming “by making simple, conscious decisions” to “conserve energy and help protect the environment from further deterioration.” She then links to an article entitled, “Simple Things We Can All Do to Help Stop Global Warming.”76 Great. So what has this diva done to cut back on energy consumption?

Nothing.

Streisand and her husband live alone in a gated compound sporting five homes and a twelve-thousand-square-foot barn that’s larger than Al Gore’s mansion. Did I mention the barn is air-conditioned?77 And this yenta wants you to cut back on energy usage by switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs? Let’s set aside the fact that Babs once starred in a movie as a crazy person. I’m sure there was no typecasting involved. However, in real life, she must think we’re nuts to take her concern about global warming seriously.

She has zero credibility.

To stop global warming, maybe she could stop singing for starters.

Take John Travolta who owns five airplanes, two of which are parked in the front yard of his home in Florida—one of which is a Boeing 707 four-engine behemoth. He owns a Lear jet and his own private runway. I have no problem with that. If he wants to double his fleet, more power to him. And yet it smacks of hypocrisy when he, like Al Goreleoni, tells us how we should live to minimize the impact on the environment, while ignoring his own preaching. Regarding global warming, Travolta said, “It is a very valid issue. I’m wondering if we need to think about other planets and dome cities.”78 In other words, things are getting so bad here on earth, we might need to move to another planet.

I say, be my guest.

When it comes to the Hollywood idiots, it’s “Do as I say, not as I play.”

I understand how easy it is to be hoodwinked by Hollywood’s cheerleaders. On the surface, they sound convincing. Their “star power” makes them seem believable. It’s easy to forget that their lines have been scripted for them on the screen. In real life, they demonstrate a poverty of ideas, a poverty of values, and a poverty of integrity. If you allow their illogic to sell you on the global warming fiction, their poverty of the soul becomes yours.

Which brings me to a final story.

While working on this book, I took a break from the writing to attend to some other business. After driving across town, I parked my car in the underground garage of an older, towering building in San Francisco. I rang for the elevator and soon found myself standing next to three or four twenty-somethings. Each was neatly dressed, reasonably nice looking people. I punched the button for my floor, the doors closed, and up we went.

I couldn’t help but notice that every one of my fellow travelers held a handheld device, maybe eight inches from their faces.

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